Julian of Norwich
Subtitle: A Book of Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780815325291
Subjects: Christian mysticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; b. 1343; Medieval Church (476-1517); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Middle English; Religion; of Norwich,; Essays; Julian; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Julian,; Christianity - History - General
First sentence: The Showings of Julian of Norwich depicts the ways, directly and indirectly, that she negotiates both the conformity of and the distance between her personal mystical experience and its subsequent insights and that which is deemed acceptable within the parameters of traditional patriarchal and theological authority.